[ltp] I need suggest

[Richard Neill]

If you have a CDROM, you might try either:

1)Knoppix
	http://www.knoppix.net
2)The linux bootable business card
	http://www.lnx-bbc.org/

These are both live CDs, i.e. run without installation. Knoppix is 
full-featured; lnx-bbc is small. It will give you a feel for what will 
work before you actually start doing things.

Note that programs will run rather more slowly from CD than they will 
once you go ahead and install on the hard disc. So don't panic about 
sluggish performance.

I agree about the extra RAM - it will make a big difference.

Lastly, you mention:
	> Cisco Pratice test that run on just Windows

I'm guessing that this is a relatively simple program, with low resource 
requirements, and no need for direct hardware access (eg USB). If so, 
you might have some luck running under WINE (winehq.com).
If so, you can save your HDD space and wipe out windows entirely.

Lastly, on a HDD that small, you probably need every last MB of space. 
So, I'd advise (some people may disagree!) that you partition it as just
/  and swap. There are advantages to having at least /,/home,swap
but you may feel that with space at a premium, you want the flexibility 
of having the space precisely where you need it.

Regards

Richard



Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> I strongly disagree. Mandrake is way too big and bulky to work on a machine 
> like that. If you have a 365X, which does NOT have a CD-ROM drive, you are 
> very limited as far as what you can and cannot use. I suggest that wherever 
> you are, you need a nice fat broadband connection. Then use a VERY BASIC 
> network card...NE2000 compatibles are best...to do a network install. The six 
> Debian install floppies will be just the ticket. There is also a way of doing 
> a network install of FreeBSD, which might be even better for this machine.
> 
> If you have a 365XD, with a CD-ROM and an external floppy, you will have 
> better luck. However, do NOT put a heavyweight distro on there by any means. 
> Again, Debian, FreeBSD and some of the more specialized small-footprint 
> distros like Peanut Linux would be ideal. The stock IBM CD-ROM in the 365XD 
> will indeed boot an El Torito CD-ROM.
> 
> Another suggestion: get a 64MB EDO SO-DIMM to boost the RAM to 72MB. There is 
> information on precisely which SO-DIMM you need out there, just not from 
> official IBM sources or from places like Crucial. It's an "unsupported 
> upgrade" and only certain SO-DIMMs with a certain configuration will work. I 
> am sorry to be vague but the friend of mine who went through the process of 
> de-assimilating a 365X that used to belong to me has all the info. I will get 
> with him and maybe we will both write a document for inclusion on the 
> linux-thinkpad.org site. At the very least, I will post the info here.
> 
> -.\\<-H-
> "Been there, done that, got the T-shirt."
> 
> On Friday 25 April 2003 11:36 am, olusola omosebi wrote:
> 
>>Mandrake Linux
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>>
>>
>>From: "Rodrigo Canelo" <rodrigo_canelo at hotmail.com>
>>
>>>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org
>>>To: <linux-thinkpad at linux-thinkpad.org>
>>>Subject: [ltp] I need suggest
>>>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:16:55 -0400
>>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>     I have a Ibm 365x with 40Mb Ram 1Gb Hard disk, wath version of linix
>>>you should.
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>
>>>Rodrigo Canelo
>>
>>From Chile
>>
>>
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